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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1893
Page
5
Mark hides in Laura Fain's home after escaping capture near Chattanooga. Laura feeds him and shields him from a cavalry search while pondering her duty to protect a Yankee spy and the risks to her brother and lover.
A dense medical and consumer ad page discusses deafness caused by Eustachian tube inflammation and praises Hall's Catarrh Cure. It promotes DeWitt's Liver Pills and Witch Hazel Salve for various ailments, urges farm improvements, and extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for women during life changes.
A collection of horse racing notes and curiosities including Goldsmith Maid’s long tail, grand circuit shifts from Pittsburg to Philadelphia, a 1500 pound mule in Missouri, natural gas at Hagan farm in Arden Pa, and records like Kremlin and Belle Vara. Also mentions a kite track in Leeds, St Julien near pasture, Santa Clara county’s prune horse at the World’s Fair, and widespread trotting growth abroad.
A New York woman calling herself a pantry lady testified in a case. Construction figures: wall space requires one cord of stone per 100 cubic feet, plus lime and sand. Coal losses vary with weather. Electrotype reproductions of rare silver pieces shown as aristocracy. Wife beating prompts talk of whipping posts in New Jersey. Austria passes a new dueling law. A principal faces six months in jail. others exempt from punishment. Ivory trade endangers elephants. Sheffield firm handled 1,280 tusks last year.
A column lists practical tricks such as freeing a rusty screw by heating the head, preserving eggs with lime and salt, and treating a hollow tooth with arsenic and morphia. It also describes training a bulky horse by circling until dizzy and dyeing fabrics red with a mixture of cochineal, tin salt, and cream of tartar boiled briefly.
The Sunday Press in New York launches an art cover feature on March 12 to fold into a quarter size. It will showcase a reproduction of St. Cecilia next week and for April will include original water color designs, an art calendar, a color painting by a leading American artist, and two masterful reproductions. Inside pages will feature weekly portraits and illustrations. the art cover would fetch at least $160 in art stores.
The eighth Romance number highlights Italian writers with a war tale and legends plus stories by Harriet Prescott Spofford Eva Wilder McGlassow Mary C Hungerford and others. It includes an Australian April Fools tale a Wilde ghost story and a French score story by Henri de Chennevieres. Published by Romance Publishing Company Clinton Hall Astor Place New York at 25 cents a number or $2.50 yearly.
Washington correspondent reports Tom Reed voicing disappointment that President Cleveland altered plans to appoint him to a cabinet post, alleging a speech by Hill or another Democrat influenced the decision.
The article notes swords from Toledo and Damascus once sold by weight in gold, French schools graduate about 650 officers annually with similar losses, British recruits must be 5 feet 4 inches tall with 33 inch chests and 130 pounds, and the Lebel rifle’s lethal effectiveness is described as wonderful yet dreadful as bullets pass through trees.
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